Mauricio Pochettino, who is currently preparing the United States national team for this year’s World Cup, has expressed a strong desire to return to Premier League management in the future.
The Argentine has been linked with a return to former club Tottenham after coaching the north London team between 2014 and 2019.
Spurs find themselves in a relegation battle after sacking Thomas Frank in February and installing Igor Tudor on an interim basis.
Tottenham sit just one point above the Premier League relegation zone with seven games remaining, and Tudor has earned them only a single point from his first five league games in charge.
Pochettino articulated his affection for English football in L'Equipe. "I love the country, its culture, the football culture," he stated.
"For anyone with a competitive spirit who wants to measure themselves against others and test their abilities, it's the ideal place. You have to constantly give your best."
Pochettino boasts significant Premier League experience across three spells. He began with Southampton before five years at Tottenham, where they became regular top-four finishers and reached the 2019 Champions League final. He also had one season at Chelsea.
After parting ways with Tottenham in 2019, Pochettino took charge at Paris Saint-Germain in 2021.
However, he revealed he was approached by a London club, understood to be Tottenham, six months into his French capital tenure.
"Not just Tottenham. Other very big clubs too. When that six-month season ended, with the whole Covid situation, the club situation created instability," he explained.
He reflected: "I enjoyed my experience at PSG. But I had other options, which I shared with the club, but they chose not to listen to any of them."
Pochettino was also a Tottenham target when Ange Postecoglou was sacked last season, but then said a return to north London was not realistic.